"how about we call the state washington and the city can be springfield?"
"Jeremiah you're a genius, now let's go kill some natives to celebrate"

at the same time though that "tuning out" is like getting used to a chafing shoe. Sure you stop thinking about it, but it's still hurting you..

Every now and then the traffic volume in my town goes down so much that all that background noise is completely gone, and it literally changes how the world feels. Suddenly you viscerally feel like you're out on the countryside and everything just feels calm and peaceful.
The constant road noise literally observably makes people stressed, it lowers your lifespan!

americans try to come up with a new name challenge

they really just drag on and on and on

"oh fuck was it "barbarbar bar barbar" or "barbar barbar bar"???? shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit"

i'm curious how many inventions we just passively consider advanced or accidental were in fact people going "this copper stuff is great but it's pretty hard to find, there's green rock all around it so.. let's try melting that? wuhey it worked! Now we have access to way more copper! Hm, wonder if other rocks melt into something neat.."

we literally treat livestock better than this during transport, if only because livestock has value and dealing with nasty stuff is nasty

And that's something i'll never understand about people who are okay with this: it's depraved to treat people like cattle, but to treat them worse goes beyond depravity and into being the very definition of evil. Presumably the perpetrators consider suffering a positive..

i'm sure there has to be a "sprangfelden" somewhere near the dutch-german border

ayn brand

me and the bro platonically raising our kids together

I maintain that the most realistically usable artificial global language would be something inspired by toki pona, but with actual effort put into picking words that are maximally understandable and pronounceable by as many people as possible and is designed to be incredibly difficult to mangle beyond intelligibility.

No even remotely complex rules, nothing fancy whatsoever, just an engineered caveman speech that literally anyone can learn from a pamphlet and reliably use to communicate basic normal things with anyone else. Like the way you end up talking when you just barely know a language and need to communicate "i'm allergic to shellfish, can you guarantee that my food won't have touched any part of an animal with a shell?"

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